Jefferson
County Public Library WelcomesMystery Writer Lori Rader-Day as First Founders’ Day Speaker
Tuesday,
April 20, the Madison Public Library will host award-winning author Lori
Rader-Day for a behind-the-scenes look at a mystery writer’s process and
experience. Beginning at 6:00 p.m., the evening will include an online
presentation and will end with a Q & A session by the author.
The Hanover Book Group
is reading Rader-Day’s 2020 The Lucky One
for its March 22 meeting. Go to www.mjcpl.org/events
to register for the Author Talk and/or The
Lucky One discussion.
Signed books by Rader-Day are available
for purchase at Village Lights Bookstore, 110 E Main St, Madison at a 10 % discount. Call 812/265-1800 for details about signed bookplate
and signed copies of The Day I Died, Under a Dark Sky, and The
Lucky One.
Rader-Day uses Indiana, Michigan and
Wisconsin as the settings for her fiction. She
is the Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning
author of The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The
Day I Died, Little Pretty Things,
and The Black Hour. Her short fiction
has been previously published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, TimeOut Chicago, Crab
Orchard Review, Freight Stories,
and in the anthologies Dia de los Muertos, Unloaded 2, and Murder-a-Go-Go’s.
Bestselling author Jodi Picoult chose her story as the grand prize winner
of Good Housekeeping’s first fiction
contest in 2010.
Originally from
central Indiana, she studied journalism at Ball State University in Muncie
(IN), and studied creative writing at Roosevelt University (IL). She is an adjunct faculty member for the
MA/MFA creative writing program at Northwestern University’s School of
Professional Studies. A resident of Chicago for
twenty years, she is active in the area’s crime writing community and the
current national president of Sisters in Crime, and a member of Mystery Writers
of America and International Thriller Writers. Rader-Day is the co-chair
of Murder and Mayhem in Chicago, a
one-day mystery readers’ conference.
The program is
sponsored in part by the Indiana Humanities’ Novel Conversations Speakers
Program, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.